Jewish Farm School
The Jewish Farm School is dedicated to teaching about contemporary food and environmental issues through innovative trainings and skill-based Jewish agricultural education. We are driven by traditions of using food and agriculture as tools for social justice and spiritual mindfulness. Through our programs, we address the injustices embedded in today’s mainstream food systems and work to create greater access to sustainably grown foods, produced from a consciousness of both ecological and social well being., The Jewish Farm School is dedicated to teaching about contemporary food and environmental issues through innovative trainings and skill-based Jewish agricultural education. We are driven by traditions of using food and agriculture as tools for social justice and spiritual mindfulness. Through our programs, we address the injustices embedded in today’s mainstream food systems and work to create greater access to sustainably grown foods, produced from a consciousness of both ecological and social well being.
Written by Tali Smookler, Repair the World Fellow-Philadelphia
A major opportunity for urban garden growth lies in the estimated 40,000 vacant lots in Philadelphia. This has the area equivalent of 2,700 football fields. They attract crime, and make it harder to create healthier neighborhoods. Financially, vacant lots are costly, with the ...
Blog post by Joshua Boydstun, Rabbinical Student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
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My camping tent has seen its fair share of adventure: Caked in the red dust and baked in the summer sun of the Sonoran Desert. Encrusted with the frozen rain of a Yellowstone autumn. Rocked with rain, whipped with wind and ...
Blog post by Joshua Boydstun, Rabbinical Student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Bees have become front-page news. The cover story of Time magazine’s August 19 issue—entitled “A World Without Bees”—and similar articles from major news outlets like Mother Jones, The Atlantic and The New York Times are ...
Blog post by Joshua Boydstun, Rabbinical Student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
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On June 25, President Obama unveiled his new Climate Change Action Plan during a speech at Georgetown University. The plan comprises three distinct yet related efforts to prepare for—and to mitigate, whenever possible...
Blog post and photos by Avi Katzman, Farm Educator Apprentice
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As a “still-feeling-semi-new” Farm Educator Apprentice here at Eden Village, I feel I’ve been learning ...
Blog post by Joshua Boydstun, Jewish Farm School Rabbinic Intern
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As a rabbinical student, I spend a lot of time thinking and talking about metaphorical “roots”: What is “the root of an idea”? Are texts and traditions “rooted” in a particular ...
Blog post by Josh Boydstun, Jewish Farm School Rabbinic Intern
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During the month of Iyyar (April 10-May 9, 2013), we traditi...
Blog post by Jacob Siegel, Jewish Farm School Group Leader and rabbinical student
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On March 6th, we invited students on two Jewish Farm School trips in New Orleans to participate in a shechita, a ritual slaughter of chickens. Jewish tradition calls for all kosher meet to undergo a specific process of ...
